Missão Centenário
Brazilian flag at the side of the rocket. | |
| Mission type | Short duration flight |
|---|---|
| Mission duration | 9d 21h 16m |
| Orbits completed | 155 |
| Expedition | |
| Space station | International Space Station |
| Began | March 30, 2006, 02:30:20 UTC (19 years ago) |
| Ended | April 8, 2006, 23:47:12 UTC (19 years ago) |
| Arrived aboard | Soyuz TMA-8 |
| Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-7 |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 1 |
| Members | Marcos Pontes |
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Marcos Pontes Visiting expeditions (pt) | |
The Missão Centenário was born of an agreement between the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) and the Roscosmos on October 18, 2005. The main objective of this treaty would be to send the first Brazilian into space, Lt. Col. Aviator Marcos Pontes.
The name of the mission is a reference to the commemoration of the centenary of the first crewed flight of a Brazilian-designed aircraft, the Santos-Dumont 14-bis, in Paris on October 23, 1906.
The vehicle used for launching the mission was the Roscosmos Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft, and its launch took place on March 30, 2006 (11:30 p.m Brasília time) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) to International Space Station (ISS).